Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1038
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-00749A-10                                          20101038__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to information technology; creating a
    3         children and families interagency workgroup to
    4         evaluate and make recommendations relating to an
    5         integrated information infrastructure; requiring the
    6         workgroup to submit its recommendations to the
    7         Governor and Legislature; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Children and families data collaboration
   12  workgroup.—The Department of Children and Family Services, the
   13  Department of Health, the Department of Corrections, the
   14  Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Department of Education
   15  shall form an interagency workgroup to evaluate and make
   16  recommendations for improving the efficiency and quality of
   17  integrated children and family services in this state by
   18  creating an integrated information infrastructure that supports
   19  cross-agency collaboration at both the local and state levels.
   20  The evaluation shall focus on the consensus development of
   21  standards and procedures for interagency data sharing and data
   22  transmission, functional specifications for case management
   23  information systems, and confidentiality standards for the
   24  management and exchange of client data across agencies. The
   25  workgroup shall submit its recommendations to the Governor, the
   26  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
   27  Representatives by February 1, 2011.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.